Comments on: Listen Y’all Y’all This Is The Saboteur

By: SheffieldSteel

SheffieldSteel — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:11:49 +0000

Two reasons this is going to be interesting to watch…
(1) Irishman plants bombs and then shoots people while they run around like headless chickens. Perhaps people *are* forgetting history.
(2) Boobies.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:04:39 +0000

Nice Beastie pun.

By: Aldaris

Aldaris — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:04:39 +0000

My first thoughts when hearing that: ‘Hey, I thought I turned winamp off for thi- oh, wait, what? Awesome!’

By: Sparvy

Sparvy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:48:12 +0000

To be fair I didnt say the singer was amrican, but as far as I know the majority of the band is american and they are trying to make their music sound as Irish as possible. They pretty much go for the stereotype.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:11:38 +0000

@Vinraith

Two reasons:
1. Most of the audience doesn’t have the accent called for, and they’ll spot bad acting on a proper Irishman way before they spot bad accent on a good actor. So better to prioritize the quality of the voice acting, then hopefully get the accent right as well.

2. In movies there’s a constant fidelity problem – reality is unrealistic. Or to put it less absurdly, people find fake things more believable than real things. In early movies (and probably some early video games), they used real guns to record real gunshots, but the audience didn’t think the guns “sounded realistic.” So they mocked up some fake gunshots, and the audience found those more believable. For an example of this at work and on the topic at hand, skim down this page to where Sparvy complains about how the lead singer of Flogging Molly is laughably awful at sounding Irish.

By: TariqOne

TariqOne — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:39:30 +0000

Southerners! I’m a NYC kid growsed up. And a child of the 80s. And I went to Stuyvesant High School (of the t-shirt fame). And I even know a Beastie Boy. And damnit, it’s “alla y’all.”

I appreciate we jacked your Southernisms by way of the African-American northwards diaspora. But this is now a pure question of Northeastern urban locution. And again, it’s “alla y’all.” That is all. I will broach no further debate on this matter.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:21:40 +0000

“Top of the morning”? Oh man.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:08:49 +0000

agreed!

By: mpk

mpk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:49:53 +0000

“That… would be… an ecumenical matter.”

DRINK! GURRLS! ARSE!

By: Junch

Junch — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:44:16 +0000

I want to know if it’s like GTA IV, just in WW2-occupied France

By: Jesucristo

Jesucristo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:54 +0000

I prefer the Saboteur from Sinclair Spectrum.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:09:27 +0000

BLAGGARDS
TO DAH BONE